ANDROMEDA Multiplayer Patch
not a question but an observation. Most players who've expressed an opinion on Multiplayer find the weapons (and most powers) to be extremely weak and in need of buffs in the region of 50-100%, may...
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As a player who spend >100 hours and have 7k+ APEX rating on ME:A multiplayer, I'm disappointed at what they call "balance" for multiplayer in patch 1.05.
Viable options on Gold difficulty are still way too few, only a few guns are decent enough for multiplayer. All they did is to "buff" weak guns for an insignificant amount; most powers are still too underwhelming to use. Melee, one of the very few viable options on silver/gold, is nerfed. If there is no major change to the balance, I wonder how long can the multiplayer last...
They should not cancel the test for multiplayer before release. Well, at least they tried, but there's way more to change.
Viable options on Gold difficulty are still way too few, only a few guns are decent enough for multiplayer. All they did is to "buff" weak guns for an insignificant amount; most powers are still too underwhelming to use. Melee, one of the very few viable options on silver/gold, is nerfed. If there is no major change to the balance, I wonder how long can the multiplayer last...
They should not cancel the test for multiplayer before release. Well, at least they tried, but there's way more to change.
it's balanced on bronze.
Not on Silver or Gold.
I'd go so far as to say the weapons and powers are all tuned specifically for bronze.
I've just hit 8000 Apex rating and it's very clear to me that this is the case. The update did not address Assault Rifles in any meaningful way for difficulties higher than bronze.
Every Semi-Auto AR is useless on Gold, with a level 20 character.
Every Full Auto and Burst fire AR is the same with varying degrees - takes at least an entire clip to kill one unshielded unarmoured mob.
Every Pistol the same.
Not sure about Shotguns.
At the moment i'm using the raptor Sniper rifle as an assault rifle. And it's adequate.
being able to use all of the weapons or basically, having a choice of them on gold would be great, but right now, that's not how it's working. Which is kind of depressing, and frustrating given how much obvious work has gone into the multiplayer.
- Agreed, ultra rare weapons like n7 crusader, n7 valkyrie, Soned, Dhan... Are just underwhelming when compared to vanquisher, black widow, raptor and melee. It would get boring fast with only a few viable weapons on Gold. N7 piranha, in my opinion is the only decent shotgun on Gold, still too weak tho.
@Noob88Ball wrote:
Agreed, ultra rare weapons like n7 crusader, n7 valkyrie, Soned, Dhan... Are just underwhelming when compared to vanquisher, black widow, raptor and melee. It would get boring fast with only a few viable weapons on Gold. N7 piranha, in my opinion is the only decent shotgun on Gold, still too weak tho.At this point, I'd expect them to nerf Sniper rifles next rather than make anything else viable.
They also really need to patch Data Transfer. It seems to be literally impossible when soloing. It's hard enough just to survive trying to transfer, but they just had to make it pause when an enemy is nearby? Then drain at twice the rate it increases when you step away? AND give you a time limit? It looks like it'd take around 30+ seconds just to finish one transfer at least, if uninterrupted. I'm not sure there's even enough time on the clock to do it let alone with all the other bs. Am I doing something wrong here or what I could have sworn I watched a video with someone doing data transfer solo on gold, where as I just lost because of Data Transfer in the last wave before extraction (I think extraction was next at least). Making me waste 30 minutes. I couldn't make any progress at all. It's absolutely ridiculous.
- They missed the point that most people use melee and sniper rifles on Gold because they are the only things that deal real damage on Gold, not because they are overpowered. The problem with silver/gold is not they are too hard to beat, it's the problem of bullet sponge which makes the match boring.
But it seems that the devs see these problens in a wrong way. They should buff other trash tier stuff to be competent instead of nerfing something which is just viable but not op. (Melee, IMO, is fine as it was before the patch.)
(Reply to the previous reply) Data transfer in wave 6 is annoying when my teammates are suck.
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